Defense Support Services, Inc.

Defense Support Services, Inc., a HUBZone-certified minority-owned small disadvantaged business based in Arlington, Texas, supplies aviation hardware, fastening components, and consumable spare parts to the Defense Logistics Agency as a pure prime contractor (100% of awards), competing predominantly on Total Small Business set-aside vehicles and full-and-open orders. The firm is a Subchapter S corporation and self-certified small disadvantaged business with Department of Transportation Disadvantaged Business Enterprise designation, operating exclusively from Arlington with all performance conducted in-house and no subcontract footprint across its portfolio.

Defense Support Services' capability portfolio centers narrowly on discrete fastening procurement — bolts, nuts, screws, rivets, washers, sleeves, bushings, pins, studs, and related consumables supplied under Federal Supply Classes 53 (Hardware and Abrasives) and 46 (Pipe, Tubing, Hose, and Fittings), primarily under NAICS 332722 (Bolt, Nut, Screw, Rivet, and Washer Manufacturing) and 332510 (Hardware Manufacturing). Recent representative awards include a $254.7 million full-and-open purchase order from DLA Aviation for flat washers (6,894 units, June 2026), a $272.1 million Total Small Business set-aside order from DLA Land and Maritime for tube caps (845 units, April 2026), a $171.9 million Total Small Business delivery order from DLA Aviation for self-locking nuts (September 2026 completion), a $161.8 million full-and-open purchase order from DLA Aviation for an oil pump housing assembly (18 units, April 2026), and a $135.8 million Total Small Business set-aside order from DLA Aviation for shear bolts (2,464 units, April 2026). The vendor holds five single-award indefinite delivery contracts with DLA, each carrying ceilings between $350 thousand and $2.36 million, covering signal horns, aviation hardware and fastening components, grooved clamp couplings, welding studs, pin-rivets, and gaskets, with performance periods extending through 2027–2031.

Customer concentration is extreme and single-agency anchored. Defense Logistics Agency divisions account for 99% of all awards and 79% of combined potential value. Within that footprint, DLA Aviation dominates with 7,399 awards totaling $114 million combined potential value, followed by DLA Troop Support Hardware (5,103 awards, $46.6 million), DLA Land and Maritime (895 awards, $23.8 million), and DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (542 awards, $3.7 million). The vendor has registered one sub-award: a Lockheed Martin subcontract for clamp assemblies with rhino coating dated July 1, 2025.

Activity has contracted sharply in the most recent year. The vendor recorded 1,295 awards in 2022, declining to 1,013 in 2023, 901 in 2024, 1,059 in 2025, and only 300 in the first seven months of 2026 — a decline trajectory consistent with either seasonality or pipeline contraction. Combined potential value across all 14,283 prime awards (since 2000) stands at $241.4 million, with $95.3 million obligated (39% realization). Within the next twenty-four months, 183 awards carrying $9.5 million in combined potential value face ultimate completion and will require recompete. The largest parent vehicles are two indefinite delivery contracts — SPE5EY17D0513 (1,674 task orders, $3.1 million) and SPE5EY17D0528 (1,196 task orders, $2.2 million) — both DLA aviation hardware platforms with the majority of Defense Support Services' work flowing through them.

Defense Support Services competes exclusively under Total Small Business set-aside designation across the majority of its footprint, with full-and-open awards rising in frequency for larger-dollar, higher-visibility procurements. The vendor's entire operational and strategic posture is locked into DLA consumable fastening supply, with no diversification across other federal agencies, prime customers, or capability domains visible in the source data. No parent company, acquisition, or teaming relationships are documented.

A stocking distributor/service provider of aircraft hardware & fasteners for production, overhaul and repair for various aircraft and ground support vehicles. Also have sources of supply to provide a variety of products for various uses. Offer JIT,3PL,customized kitting. We are QSDL, with quality, on time deliveries and efficient cost.

Also provides commercial build out and remodel services. Includes glass installation, glazing, electrical, other wiring install, plumbing, heating, a/c install, drywall, painting, flooring installation.